Fox News jumps gun on Fallujah KFC

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:27:13 PDT
Fox & friends are pretty excited about the opening of a Kentucky Fried Chicken opening in the city of Fallujah, citing it as an example of the economic progress being made in Iraq. Too bad they failed to any basic fact checking (like calling KFC headquarters for comment) which would have revealed that the "KFC" in question is a black market shop.

Antilles to appeal against court ruling on same-sex couples

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INTERVIEW: Trust him, he's a junior doctor - being gay in the NHS

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:43:41 PDT
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VINTAGE Nick Jonas The Sound Of Music

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:08:07 PDT
Nick Jonas The Sound of Music interview. oceanUP focuses on bringing you the latest in up-and-coming celebrity news, youth-centric trends and teen gossip. If you're wondering that backstory on a hot young star, chances are oceanUP can give you the lowdown.

The Unflattering Way We Dress

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:00:49 PDT
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MiT6: Stone and Papyrus, Storage and Transmission

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:12:09 PDT
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Kentucky has picked every President since 1964

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:40:30 PDT
Kentucky has picked every US President since 1964. Right now the state is trending towards …John McCain. Washington remains determinedly Democrat, however, as does Pennsylvania. Alaska is reliably Republican. In a nationwide poll released by CNN, Obama has a seven-point lead.

Wikia Showing that Social Search Can Work

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:48:57 PDT
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Source: Washington Post

Mauritania forces stage coup after officers sacked

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Presidential guardsmen seized Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi in a coup on Wednesday after he sacked several top army officers, and announced that he had been deposed.

Soldiers gathered at the presidential palace after Abdallahi replaced senior army officers during a political crisis in the northwest African country, one of the continent's newest oil producers which also mines iron, copper and gold.

A "State Council" led by one of the sacked officers, former presidential guard chief Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, said Abdallahi was now "former president" and annulled his previous decree sacking Abdelaziz and the heads of the army and Gendarmerie.

The communique, described as the council's "Statement No. 1," was broadcast by Gulf-based al-Arabiya television. State television and radio in Nouakchott had both ceased broadcasting earlier in the day.

Abdallahi won elections last year and took over from a military junta that had ruled since it toppled President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya in a bloodless coup in 2005.

"The security agents of the BASEP (Presidential Security Battalion) came to our home around 9.20 (5:20 a.m. EDT) and took away my father," Amal Mint Cheikh Abdallahi, the president's daughter, told Reuters.

A presidency official who declined to be named said the president, prime minister and interior minister had been arrested and taken to an unknown destination.

Largely desert Mauritania, a former French colony of more than 3 million people, straddles black and Arab Africa.

Abdallahi replaced one government in May following criticism over the government's response to soaring food prices and to attacks over the last year carried out by al Qaeda's north African arm.

But the new government resigned last month in the face of a proposed no-confidence vote.

A new one was formed but without the opposition Union of Forces for Progress (UFP) and Islamist Tawassoul parties which had formed part of the previous government.

This week most of the members of parliament belonging to Abdallahi's PNDD-ADIL party walked out from the party en masse, in a move some political sources said were supported by senior military officials.

 

 

 

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